Knowledge Production, Policy and Practice in Education : Social Realist Explorations of Curriculum, Teaching and Research

Knowledge Production, Policy and Practice in Education: Social Realist Explorations of Curriculum, Teaching and Research brings together theoretical and empirical enquiries into curricula, pedagogy and assessment, informed by the influential traditions of social realism and Basil Bernstein’s sociology of education. The edited volume provides tools for understanding persistent educational inequalities and approaches to inclusive educational systems.

The book is an edited collection of chapters by scholars of the sociology of education who focus on knowledge, curriculum, and pedagogy working in Africa, Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America. Each chapter extends scholarly debate around knowledge production and exchange, knowledge and the curriculum, and knowledge and professional practice. Collectively, the chapters offer an insight into the dynamic relationships among educational systems, policies, teacher education, and teaching practice.

Ultimately enabling readers to see how social realist ideas around knowledge can be employed across different scales and contexts of educational practice, this book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of the sociology of education, social realism, and curriculum studies. Education professionals, including teacher educators, and those working in policy will also benefit from this book.

Grace Healy is Honorary Associate Professor, UCL Institute of Education, UK, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK, and Education Director (Secondary), David Ross Education Trust, UK.

Di Swift is Associate Lecturer, Primary Education, The Open University, UK & Honorary Fellow, Institute for Social Inclusion, Keele University, UK.

Brian Barrett is Professor in the Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, State University of New York at Cortland, USA.